Word: quest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell it in a few words. I bet a fellow-Westminster College student $100 that I could take 50 girls buggy-riding on 50 successive days without taking the same girl twice, and get a lock of hair from each. I not only won the bet, but found the quest for locks such a pleasant one that I did not stop until I had the hundred...
...beyond the limits of the conventional group of college gloes and made to include classical numbers much more difficult and finished in the realms of male choral music. Harvard has even gone so far as to no longer limit membership in her glee club to undergraduates but in the quest of the most polished voices obtainable, has admitted many from the graduate schools. Yale has not gone to this extreme but has decidedly improved the general level of her program with the gradual introduction of more numbers of the classical type...
However, the Vagabond may continue his quest for knowledge for two hours, in Economics 2 at 9 o'clock, and in History 13, at 10 o'clock. In Economics 2, Professor Gay will lecture on "Railroad Development Since the War". Dr. Baxter will speak on "Great Britain and the American Civil War" at 10 o'clock in Sever 35. This should be of especial interest to all Southern students in the University, and the Vagabond invites all to meet him there...
Although the Vagabond has recently been immersing himself rather deeply in the fine arts, he is going to make another expedition in this quest today when he goes to the Vose Galleries at 559 Boylston Street to see a collection of paintings by Zuloaga, Moncini, Bellows and other modern artists...
...only thing of interest to commerce so far discovered in Dutch New Guinea are the birds of paradise. In quest of these, adventurers, Australians. Chinamen, and Malays have performed exploits comparable only to those of the pioneers in our West. But with changes in styles, birds are no longer worth hunting, and while the boats of the bird hunters continue to rot on the strand, New Guinea will remain in its present state of mystery and oblivion...